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by sakopov 5y ago
The idea is ambitious but incredibly dystopian because it completely excludes conflicts arising from our innate differences. It's literally a real-world imitation of the Brave New World plot.
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by sakopov 5y ago
Yeah, to be fair, that never happened. What did happen is him saying that if you're older you should stay home and if you're younger you should be alright with masks, which at the time was the same message that you'd hear in
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Mariposa Family Death Mystery(washingtonpost.com)
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USA Today fact checked a PayDay candybar joke(usatoday.com)
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MIT Proves That Leonardo Da Vinci's Bridge Design Works(popularmechanics.com)
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Gobekli Tepe – An immense mystery older than Stonehenge(bbc.com)
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by sakopov 5y ago
> People who do it are complete idiots. US Senators would likely disagree with your assessment. [1] [1] https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate
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Taliban now controls one of the world’s biggest lithium deposits(qz.com)
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by sakopov 5y ago
Between this and Equifax hacks alone, can we make an assumption that the majority of SSNs out there are tainted?
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What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)(aeon.co)
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by sakopov 5y ago
> I submit the utility of crypto in coins is zero but the blockchain might be marginally above zero. I disagree. If blockchain had such amazing utility we'd be seeing it successfully applied in different technology sectors, but it i
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by sakopov 5y ago
These loopholes have been around for decades with little interest from either side of the political spectrum to address them. They're clearly beneficial. Hence, it's much easier to just drain retail investors who have been very cr
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by sakopov 5y ago
I know that Bezos can do whatever he wants with this money, but this is bizarre. If I read news like this in Russian media I'd think it's a clever bribe. But I guess in the US it's called a "charitable donation" and
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by sakopov 5y ago
I can't wait to see how this will workout considering that a typically restaurant business runs on tiny margins. My prediction is quality is going to tank at most of our favorite places to eat (it actually already has). We'll have
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by sakopov 5y ago
> 220 is a wage at the upper end of what can be typically made by the time your 30 if you’ve chosen the right careers. This is typically true if you work for a fang. These insane salaries rarely exist anywhere else.
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The Possibilities of Plasma(drexel.edu)
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A man in Egypt keeping a 200-year-old tradition of tile-making [video](m.youtube.com)
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by sakopov 5y ago
There is definitely a catch and the catch is that you still pay taxes on that stream of income, but not as much as you would have if you paid the tax on capital gains and yes, some funds still go to charity in the end. Like I said, my des
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by sakopov 5y ago
This isn't entirely true, but it really depends on how you read OPs point. I know people who have LLC setup to buy rental property. At a very minimum they write off depreciation cost of the properties against their taxes. I wouldn&#x27
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by sakopov 5y ago
Here's one - a Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) allows you to donate your wealth, get a tax deduction on it and setup an income stream from it for as long as you're alive before the funds go to charity. This is highly simplified,
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by sakopov 5y ago
About a month ago I discovered Mark Kohler on YouTube [1] who runs a little channel talking about wealth management. Once you watch a couple of videos you quickly see the pattern - the biggest cheat code to the US tax system is entrepreneur
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by sakopov 5y ago
> America, in contrast with most other countries, has very little cultural infrastructure to guide people. Freedom and individualism (however shallow) is emphasized. Very true. I went to a public school in Eastern Europe and everyone had
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by sakopov 5y ago
Wanted to add to this that there is very little that would stop IRS from taking IRA status off your account (unless you're Peter Thiel) and forcing you to sell all assets and pay capital gains if you committed a prohibited transaction.
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by sakopov 5y ago
It looks like according to this source [1] placing stock options in a self-directed IRA violates tax code. This makes me wonder what kind of trickery was used to get this accomplished for Thiel. Granted, it's possible that the tax code
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Missing grandparents’ landline calling from collapsed condo, family says(local10.com)
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by sakopov 5y ago
Interestingly, yesterday I had a conversation with someone who works in HR at a tech company and they said that it's been incredibly difficult to lure candidates away from existing jobs because most are afraid of jumping ship in curren
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by sakopov 5y ago
Recent interview with the founder. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck685sVmdkk&t=2s
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by sakopov 5y ago
We get into the same conversation every time people buy at the top and the price sinks 60-80%. And for the past decade it has only bailed people out. So I don't see any reason speculating what will be the demise of Bitcoin because so f
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by sakopov 5y ago
Social media is part of human evolution. Removing it is unproductive. It's another way of communicating that we haven't yet figured out how to do properly. It seems like it started off on a good path, but quickly turned into hate,
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by sakopov 5y ago
You can start a Directed IRA and literally buy and sell whatever you want tax free.

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